3D Printing Technology

By Larry Hardesty | Sep 16, 2017 @ 14:13 | MIT News | Expanding polymer enables self-folding without heating or immersion in water. As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating printable structures that will fold themselves into useful three-dimensional shapes when heated or immersed in water. In […]

By Larry Hardesty | Aug 6, 2017 @ 08:11 | MIT News | Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3-D printers. MIT researchers have developed a new design system that catalogues the physical properties of a huge number of tiny cube clusters. Today’s 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, […]

Jul 28, 2017 @ 06:23 | A new technique that uses the artificial intelligence methods of machine learning and deep learning is able to create 3-D shapes from 2-D images, such as photographs, and is even able to create new, never-before-seen shapes. Karthik Ramani, Purdue’s Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering, says that the […]

Jul 27, 2017 @ 07:11 | An international group of researchers developed a technique that results in more accurate 3-D scanning for reconstructing complex objects than what currently exists. The innovative method combines robotics and water. “Using a robotic arm to immerse an object on an axis at various angles, and measuring the volume displacement […]

By Vibeke Arildsen | Jul 12, 2017 @ 12:49 | In just 13 minutes, a newly developed robot printer can transform an aluminum wire with little motors attached into a functional robot that can be recycled and reused for other purposes. Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), MIT and Columbia, among others, are behind the […]

Jul 6, 2017 @ 04:44 | The Saarland University has presented the first real-time method to capture the full global 3D skeletal pose of a human in a stable, temporally consistent manner using a single RGB web camera. More and more applications require the capture of a person and their movements as a digital 3-D […]

Jul 5, 2017 @ 07:23 | The smallest and most accurate 3d printed biopsy robot world is unveiled this week. The Ram 4, such as the robot is called, is of plastic, 3d-printed and is driven by air pressure. The advantage of plastic is that the robot can be used in the MRI scanner. The […]